A Guide to Blogging

A blog is a website which is always being updated with information to educate and entertain people, just like a good daily news program or local newspaper. Good blogs provide you with a nice balance of education and entertainment, which has a lot of content and teach you something new and entertains you a bit in the process. For your blog to be successful you will want to make sure
you incorporate each of these three things into your own blog as well. The most successful blogs on the internet do this and do it quite well. Google’s Blogger is a simple blog for everyone just sign up for an account, signing up takes all of about five minutes and you are up and on your way.
A blog can also be a more formal website used to educate people, or simply can be an online diary or a notebook you use to publish your thoughts. Any topic you can think of and start blogging.You can adjust the look and feel of your own blog to match the type of blog you wish to have through blogger’s templates. Personal or professional blog can have AdSense on it, you are also free to have
more than one blog and can get some money!

Find a blog on a topics ranging from workplace politics, world politics, relationships, frugal living, sports, religion, family life, children, family or pets then start your own blog and making some money with it. Blogging is one of the only truly “free” start-up business models on the internet, even your grandmother could have her own blog if she wanted to. From there you can add Adsense and other affiliate links to your blog and make money from your visitors clicking on those links, this is referred to as monetizing a blog - making money with a blog.

write catchy titles for your blog

Don’t write boring titles for your posts, stay away from writing sensational ones.
Through enticing but you can attract with factual headlines and inbound links without misleading your readers with content that doesn’t match the headline of your post.
Keep in mind that you are not simply doing so for the sake of link baiting reasons, instead write catchy and grab the reader’s eye and pique curiosity titles. Your title is what needs to convince a viewer to read the rest of your article and not just the headline, your titles should also try to
organically include relevant keywords for SEO purposes.
Unnecessarily sensational titles would certainly attract links but you stand to quickly lose the respect of many of your readers. If  applicable Consider introducing an element of urgency, Why read it now?, Sign Up Before the Deadline! conveying them with your article.

can link baiting be ethical?

Quantity and quality of your inbound links are the two most important off-page SEO factors.
Never buy links, black hats will pretty much do anything to get links, including buying them in bulk whereas ethical bloggers work hard on the quality of their content.
The concept is innocent enough, Link baiting (or link baiting) is the art of creating content that attracts a lot of links and generates buzz. In practice link baiting often has a negative connotation, link baiting can be good “white-hat” marketing or it can be a questionable “grey-hat” practice but it all depends on how you do it.
White hats operate within the rules and take a strong ethical approach to their work, whereas Black hats do not and will do everything necessary including illegal activities to obtain what they are after.
Grey hats are, as their name implies, in a grey zone lies between the two.
Bad link baiting is characterized by the following traits:
~ Needless controversy for the sake of controversy.
~ Content that has no real value to the end user but that people may at first think is cool .
~ Write catchy but not overly sensational headlines, find the right balance key.
~ Create unique content that people genuinely want to read and will find value in or overly sensational headlines that don’t match the content.

How to Write for the Web

You only have a few seconds to captivate a visitor and different from writing a book or a letter.
Let’s consider a few do’s and don’ts to capture reader’s attention.
Most visitors follow an F-shaped pattern with their eyes when scanning a web page and you need to grab their attention and lead
them to the rest of your post.
Do
~ Your headline and top paragraph is what the majority of your visitors will read, write a catchy headline and first paragraph.
~ Divide your text into short paragraphs, Make lists using numbers or bullet points to make your content quick to scroll through for
the many readers who aren’t going to read every word of your post.
~ Divide your long posts into sections using headers such as <h2> or <h3> tags.
~ Be concise and write to the point.
~ Include one or more pictures, strive for at least one image in each post.
~ Try to kick off each paragraph with useful information so that more likely they read your post.
~ Be as clear, direct, concise, and unceremonious as possible.
~ Be informal, your posts should initiate conversations.
~ Acknowledge corrections after a post has been published.
~ Add updates if you publish small updates to existing articles, disclose that you did so at the bottom of your post.
~ Proofread. You must try to be grammatically correct and make sure to proofread your content before sending it live.
~ If you are not a native English speaker and planning to write your content in English then “Natify” your content.
Don’t:
~ Don’t abuse bold or italic text.
~ Don’t ever use underlined text your readers will assume your underlined text is a link and click it.
~ Don’t get engage in republishing someone else’s original content without adding much (or any) of your own in terms of
commentary or value.

Why content is king?

Great minds discuss ideas; The idea is that anything else you do to attract visitors only if it is unique.
Real people will read the words you write, if you have compelling, original content more people will find you via search queries.
In Internet marketing the saying is Content is King, many benefits all derive from well-written, interesting content. Great articles will be shared a greater number of times on social networks, attract an increasing number of regular readers, receive more positive comments, and convince more potential employers and customers attention.
How you promote, quality and quantity of your posts is what determines the success of your blog.

Set goals before starting a blog

With such a clear picture of your blog’s reason of existence, theme and topic, it’s time to start thinking big and coming up with some goals for the months ahead.
lt’s important to develop a clear flight plan first, try to be as specific as you can.
Write down goals for your blog, don’t write down vague goals.
What do you want to get out of the blog you are starting?, always set verifiable goals.
What do you expect from it in one month, three months, a year, three years? don’t jot down goals that are too ambitious for your one-month milestone.
Clarify your initial expectation and compare them to the results you actually achieve from your blog later on, If you’re on track, well done. If not, you’ll be able to make adjustments to your blogging efforts or even readjust your goals if your initial ones have proven to be unrealistic.